I fucking hate that quote. Whoever made it should be exiled to an island full of AIDS-infested gorillas on Viagra.
Idiots generally post this onto their social media profiles during the end of a vacation to signify that they must go back to work and into the “daily grind.” This idiom comes from a long ass time ago when humans had to grind wheat to make flour and bread. Grinding wheat is not an easy task but in those times, people had to do it to avoid starving to death or being eaten by the people that have gone hungry because some asshole didn’t make any bread for them.
Ok, I understand that most people’s lives can be analogous to grinding wheat. People go to work just to make money and spend it on the little pleasure they can extract from life. So what’s wrong with this idiom? It’s an admission that life has no purpose other than doing mundane, repetitive, and boring work. It dictates that you are merely a piece of a machine, rather than as the individual that you are. It states that the definition of “you” consists, merely, of what you do on a daily basis while your true self surfaces only when you are on vacation and removed from this part of the machine.
I have a friend who has a strict daily routine. Every morning, he wakes up, takes a shower, buys coffee, drives to work, works, gets off of work, eats, and spends the rest of the day watching tv/surfing the internet… and repeat. Actually, many of my friends do this. So does that mean it’s acceptable for these mother fuckers to use this disgusting idiom? Let’s think about this situation. How long is this repeated? Until the weekend? I guess people can use an enticing 2/7 of their lives to enjoy being themselves. Until a career change? Assuming that these people haven’t become complacent with being fucking useless, I guess that could work. Until retirement? So people can use their almost expired bodies to live life to the fullest? Until death? How absurd is that?
Just because you work a bullshit job or you do the same thing every day, your attitude does not need to follow suit. Every day, we should look at our lives and ask ourselves, how will today be different? We should look further than, “oh today’s jean Friday, so I can wear jeans to work.” Try doing something you don’t normally do, no matter how big or how small. Try a different hairstyle, eat something different for dinner, or go do something different with your time after work. Even the smallest change can elicit something unexpected or something new for you during the day.
If you look at the bigger picture, life is fucking absurd. We work to eat, we work to have a comfortable place to shit, we work to fuck and reproduce, and finally, we work to die. But does this work have to be referred to as the “daily grind?” Let’s go beyond the small talk, beyond the routine, and beyond our comfort zones to explore this beautiful thing called life.
fungyopo 